Amendments  to  School 

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[Acts  of  Assembly,   19161*** 


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Regulations  of  the  State  Board  of 
Education 


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Virginia  School  Laws,   1915 

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State  Board  of  Education 


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Amendments  to  School  La'wa  ;    ^rv    r; 

[Acts  of  Assembly,  1916.] 

COMMONWEALTH   OF  VIRGINI  A, 
Depabtment  of  Pubuc  Instbuction, 

Richmond,  February,  1917. 
[The  amendments  are  printed  in  this  Bulletin  in  the  order  followed  in 
Virginia  School  Laws,  1915,  the  changes  hieing  indicated  by  italics.'\ 

Va.  School  Laws,     Amendments. 
1915,  Amended.  Page  of 

Section.  Page.  Bulletin. 

Appropriations    by    General    Assembly    for 

fiscal  years  1917  and  1918 151         122  14 

Appropriations  boards  of  supervisors   may 

make  to  schools New         ...  12 

Board  of  Education,  powers  and  duties: 

Purchase  of  local  school  bonds  for  Lit- 
erary  Fund. .  .Sub-sec.    "Eleventh,"  7  19  5 
Selection  of  text-books  and 

appliances Sub-sec.    "Sixth,"  7  17  5 

Board    of    supervisors,    time    of    meeting, 

1st  para.,        138        104  13 

County  School  Board: 

Annual  meeting,  to  be  held  in  July 37  32  7 

Annual  report  of,  to  be  made  Sept.  1 . .  38  32  7 

Division       superintendents,      appointment,  • 

term,  qualifications,  etc 17  26  6 

District  or  city  school  boards  may  borrow 
money  on  short-time  loans  during  1916 
and  1917  New  18 

Free  text-books,  district  or  county  school 
boards  may  provide  under  certain  con- 
ditions    New  16 

High  School  Fund,  districts  paying  tuition 
for    high    school    pupils    may    share, 

Sub-sec.  "Second,"  94  76  9 

School  levies,  local,  maximum. 

Sub-sec.  "Third,"         136         101  11 


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Va.  School  Laws,  Amendments. 


School  >e4^^,*  cpnveyance  of  land  to,  etc. . 
State  school  'iunds,  ^approximate  apportion- 
;'*  .♦iH.e|ii»anS  .^-^-isbursement  of 

fjelinqueiit  capitation  taxes 

Forest  reserve  fund 

Inheritance    

Omitted   taxes    

Statement   of   receipts   and   disbursements, 

to    be    published    annually    by    school 

boards    137         102  12" 

Treasurer  and  clerks  to  report  to   county 

school  board  in  July 117  92  9 

United  States  flag  for  schools New  18 


Section.  Page. 

Page  of 

1915,  Amended. 

Bulletin. 

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132           99 

10 

New 

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New 

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New 

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New 

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Regulations  of  the  State  Board  of  Education 

Auditing  committee  of  the  board,  its  duties, 

Regulation         137       New  22 
Charges     against    school     official     or     em- 
ployee, procedure  as  to .Regulation         140       New                24 

Division  superintendents,  minimum  qualifi- 
cations of   Regulation         136       New  22 

Employees   of   department,    nomination    of. 

Regulation         139       New  23 

Meetings  of  the  board Regulation         138       New  23 

School  funds,  use  of  State,  county,  district, 

Substitute  for  Regulation         103         193  21 


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Selection  of  Text-Books  and  Educational  Appliances 

(Substitute  for  sub-sec.  "Sixth,"  sec.  7,  p.  17,  School  Laws.) 

Under  powers  and  duties  of  Board  of  Education. 

Sixth.  To  select  text-books  and  educational  appliances  for  use  in 
the  public  schools  of  the  State  of  Virginia,  exercising  such  discretion  as 
it  may  see  fit  in  the  selection  of  books  suitable  for  the  schools  in  the  cities 
and  counties,  respectively,  subject  to  the  conditions  and  restrictions 
hereinafter  set  forth ;  but  no  text-books  which  may  hereafter  be  adopted 
for  use  in  any  public  free  school  in  the  State  of  Virginia  shall  be  changed 
or  substituted  until  the  same  shall  have  been  used  for  a  period  of  not 
less  than  four  years.— Code,  sec.  1133;  Acts  1916,  p.  836. 

(Other  paragraphs  of  the  foregoing  sub-sec.  as  printed  in  the  School 
Laws  were  not  re-enacted  by  the  act  of  1916.) 

Purchase  of  Local  School  Bonds  for  Literary  Fund  Creates  Lien  in 

Favor  of  Fund 

(Substitute  for  sub-section  "Eleventh,"  sec.  7,  p.  19,  School  Laws.) 

Under  powers  and  duties  of  Board  of  Education: 

Eleventh.  To  invest  the  capital  and  unappropriated  income  of  the 
literary  fund  in  bonds  of  this  State,  or  of  the  United  States,  or  in  bonds 
of  railroad  companies,  secured  by  first  mortgages,  whose  market  value  for 
six  months  preceding  the  investment  has  not  been  less  than  ninety  cents 
on  the  dollar,  or  in  bonds  made  by  one  or  more  of  the  district  school 
boards  of  the  different  school  districts  in  this  State,  and  ichen  such  school 
bonds  are  purchased  on  account  of  the  literary  fund,  a  lien  in  favor  of 
said  fund  is  hereby  created  against  all  the  funds  and  income  of  said 
district,  as  well  as  upon  the  property  upon  which  said  loan  is  made..  The 
said  board  may  call  in  any  such  investment,  or  any  heretofore  made,  and 
r-e-invest  the  same,  as  aforesaid,  whenever  deemed  proper  for  the  pre- 
servation, security  or  improvement  of  the  said  fund.  Whenever,  in  ac- 
cordance with  this  section,  the  board  shall  invest  as  aforesaid  in  bonds  of 
this  State  no  premium  shall  be  required  or  paid  on  such  investment.  All 
securities  for  money  belonging  to  the  literary  fund  shall  be  deposited 
with  the  second  auditor  for  safe-keeping,  who  shall  return  with  his  an- 
nual report  a  list  thereof  with  a  statement  of  their  value. — Code,  sec. 
1433;  Acts  1916,  p.  836. 


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Division  Superintendents — Appointment,  Term,  Qualifications,  Etc. 

(Substitute  for  sec.  17,  p.  26,  School  Laws.) 

Within  thirty  days  before  April  first,  nineteen  hundred  and  seven- 
teen, and  every  four  years  thereafter,  the  State  board  of  education  shall, 
subject  to  the  confirmation  of  the  Senate,  appoint  one  division  superin- 
tendent of  schools  for  each  school  division  that  the  State  board  may,  in 
its  discretion,  establish  according  to  law,  provided  that  no  Federal  of- 
ficer, except  a  fourth-class  postmaster,  no  supervisor,  or  county  or  State 
officer,  except  a  notary  public,  or  any  deputy  of  said  officers  shall  be 
chosen  or  allowed  to  act  as  division  superintendent  of  schools.  In  the 
event  that  the  State  board  of  education  fails  to  elect  a  division  superin- 
tendent for  each  division  on  or  before  April  first  of  the  year  in  which 
said  election  is  due  to  take  place,  the  division  superintendent  of  schools 
then  in  office  for  each  division  in  which  the  board  fails  to  elect  accord- 
ing to  law  shall  be  declared  elected  for  the  succeeding  four  years  from 
July  first  of  said  year,  provided  he  is  an  applicant.  In  the  event  the 
board  fails  to  make  in  the  time  specified  an  election  in  any  school  division 
where  the  former  superintendent  is  not  an  applicant,  either  because  of 
a  dead-lock  or  the  lack  of  a  duly  qualified  applicant,  the  board  is  in- 
structed to  attach  said  division  to  some  one  of  the  adjacent  school  di- 
visions. The  board  shall  not  consider  for  division  superintendent  of 
schools  any  man  who  does  not  hold,  or  has  not  held,  a  State  teacher's 
license  the  equivalent  of  a  first-grade  certificate,  or  who  has  not  already 
held  the  office  of  division  superintendent,  or  who  has  not  1)een  a  teacher 
for  such  number  of  years  as  the  board  may  designate,  and  in  order  that 
an  applicant  for  the  position  of  division  superintendent  may  know  what 
qualifications  are  required  of  him,  the  State  board  of  education  is  here- 
by required  to  publish  on  the  first  day  of  February  of  the  year  in  which 
said  'election  is  to  take  place,  a  statement  showing  the  minimum  qualifi- 
cations for  the  position  of  division  superintendent  of  schools,  which 
statement  shall  be  furnished  to  all  applicants  on  request. 

The  term  of  office  of  the  said  division  superintendent  shall  be  four 
years  from  the  first  day  of  July  following  his  appointment. 

The  office  of  any  division  superintendent  shall  be  deemed  vacant 
upon  the  refusal  of  the  Senate  to  confirm  his  nomination,  his  removal 
from  the  division  for  which  he  was  appointed,  his  engaging  in  any  other 
business  or  employment  during  his  term  of  office  as  such  superintendent, 
unless  such  superintendent  shall  have  been  accepted  under  the  provisions 
of  sub-section  first  of  section  fourteen  hundred  and  thirty-three  of  the 
Code  of  Virginia  as  amended,  his  resignation  or  his  removal  from  office 
by  the  State  board  of  education.  Every  division  superintendent,  before 
entering  upon  the  discharge  of  the  duties  of  his, office,  shall  take  and  sub- 
scribe the  oath  prescribed  for  all  officers  of  the  State,  which  oath  shall  be 


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made  and  subscribed  before  a  circuit  or  corporation  court  having  juris- 
diction in  his  division,  or  before  the  judge  or  clerk  thereof  in  vacation. 
As  soon  as  tlie  oath  shall  have  been  taken,  subscribed  and  certified,  a  min- 
ute of  the  fact  shall  be  entered  in  the  records  of  said  court  and  a  cer- 
tificate of  the  clerk  setting  forth  the  qualification  and  its  record  ^all^ 
be  furnished  the  superintendent  of  public  instruction  for  record  in  his 
office.— Code,  sec.  1437;  Acts  1916,  p.  789. 

Annual  Meeting  of  County  School  Board  in  July 

(Amends  sec.  37,  p.  32,  School  Laws.) 

The  board  shall  hold  a  regular  annual  meeting  in  the  month  of  July, 
the  exact  date  to  be  fixed  by  the  board  itself,  or,  in  default  thereof,  by 
the  president.— Code,  sec.  IMo ;  Acts  1916,  p.  726. 

Annual  Report  of  County  School  Board  on  or  Before  September 

First 

(Amends  sec.  38,  p.  32,  School  Laws.) 

The  board  shall  make  an  annual  report  to  the  superintendent  of 
public  instruction,  through  the  division  superintendent  of  schools,  on 
or  before  the  first  day  of  September  of  each  year,  which  shall  give  in 
detail  its  official  acts  for  the  year  closing  the  thirtieth  day  of  June  pre- 
ceding.— Code,  sec.  1446;  Acts  1916,  p.  492. 

Loans  From  Literary  Fund 

(Substitute  for  sec.  67,  p.  49,  School  Laws.) 

Sec.  1.  That  the  State  board  of  education  be,  and  it  is  hereby 
authorized  to  lend  to  the  school  boards  of  the  school  districts  and  cities 
in  this  State  making  application  therefor,  money  belonging  to  the  liter- 
ary fund  and  in  hand  for  investment  for  tlie  purpose  of  erecting  or  enlarg- 
ing school  houses  in  such  districts  and  cities,  on  the  terms  and  conditions 
hereinafter  set  forth  and  subject  to  such  rules  and  regulations  as  may 
be  promulgated  by  the  said  board. 

Sec.  2.  The  several  school  boards  in  this  State,  as  aforesaid,  are 
hereby  authorized  to  borrow  money  belonging  to  the  said  literary  fund, 
and  the  district  or  city  school  board  desiring  to  borrow  a  part  of  said 
fund  shall  make  written  application  to  the  State  board  of  education 
and  shall  set  forth  therein  (one)  the  amount  of  the  proposed  loan;  (two) 
.  the  plans  and  specifications,  estimated  cost  and  location  of  the  building 
to  be  erected;  and  (three)  facts  showing  the  advisability  of  erecting  the 
same. 


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Sec.  3.  Upon  the  approval  of  the  State  superintendent  of  public 
instruction  of  the  plans  and  specifications  for  the  location  of  the  pro- 
posed building  and  of  the  making  of  the  loan,  the  State  board  of  educa- 
tion may,  in  its  discretion,  make  such  loan :  provided,  that  no  such  loan 
shall  exceed  the  sum  of  fifteen  thousand  dollars,  nor  shall  it  exceed  two- 
tliirds  of  the  cost  of  the  school  house  and  any  addition  thereto,  and  no 
loan  shall  be  made  to  aid  in  the  erection  of  a  building  or  addition  to  cost 
less  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars.  Whenever  such  loans  are  made 
for  the  purpose  of  enlarging  a  school  house,  any  part  of  the  proceeds  of 
such  loans  may,  in  the  discretion  of  the  State  hoard,  he  used  to  retire  any 
previous  loans  on  such  school  houses,  although  such  previous  loan  may  not 
have  matured. 

Sec.  4.  All  loans  not  exceeding  three  thousand  dollars  shall  bear 
interest  at  the  rate  of  three  "oer  centum  per  annum,  and  all  loans  over 
said  amount  shall  bear  interest  at  the  rate  of  four  per  centum  per  an- 
num,  payable   on    the day   of ,   the   principal 

thereof  shall  be  payable  in  fifteen  annual  installments,  and  shall  be  evi- 
denced by  bonds  or  notes  payable  to  the  Commonwealth  of  Virginia  for 
the  benefit  of  the  literary  fund — executed  or  signed  by  the  chairman  of 
the  school  boards  of  each  district  and  attested  by  the  clerk  thereof.  Pay- 
ments of  interest  and  principal  shall  be  made  to  the  State  treasurer 
through  the  second  auditor  and  evidences  of  debt  taken  for  such  loans  shall 
be  deposited  with  second  auditor  and  kept  by  him. 

Sec.  5.  The  school  boards  borrowing  funds  under  the  provisions  of 
this  act  shall  request  the  board  of  supervisors  or  the  councils  of  their 
respective  counties  or  cities  or  towns  to  cause  a'  district  tax  to  be  levied 
sufficient  to  meet  its  liabilities  on  such  contract;  and  in  the  event  that 
such  board  shall  fail  to  pay  any  installment  of  interest  or  principal 
promptly,  then  upon  notice  in  writing  to  that  effect  from  the  second 
auditor  or  from  the  State  superintendent  of  public  instruction,  the 
county  or  city  treasurer  or  other  person  having  the  custody  of  the  dis- 
trict funds  of  such  district  shall  pay  to  the  State  treasurer,  through  the 
second  auditor,  any  such  past  due  installment  of  interest  or  principal  out 
of  any  district  funds  in  his  hands  belonging  to  the  district  or  school 
board.  The  failure  of  the  school  board  of  a  district  or  city,  or  the  board 
of  supervisors,  or  the  council  of  a  city  or  town,  to  provide  for  the  pay- 
ment of  such  loan  shall  be  deemed  a  cause  for  removal  from  office. 

Sec.  6.  Before  making  any  loan  under  this  act,  the  State  board 
of  education  shall  be  satisfied  that  the  school  district  or  board  borrowing 
the  fund  has  a  good  and  sufficient  title  in  fee  to  the  real  estate  on  which 
the  proposed  building  is  to  be  erected,  or  that  the  'same  has  been  leased 
by  the  local  school  authorities  for  a  period  of  twenty  years  or  more,  upon 
such  terms  that  there  is  no  liahility  of  the  loss  of  any  money  that  may  he 
loaned  under  the  provisions  of  this  act;  and  that  the  same  is  free  from 


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incumbrances,  and  shall  take  proper  measure  to  secure  the.  expenditures 
of  the  money  for  the  purpose  for  which  it  is  loaned;  an<i  in  cases  where 
loans  are  made  for  the  enlargement  of  school  houses,  previous  loans  there- 
on made  from  the  literary  fund  shall  not  he  considered  an  incumbrance 
within  the  meaning  of  this  section,  provided  in  no  case  shall  th&  toiuL 
amount  of  loans  fro7n  the  literary  fund  he  in  excess  of  the  amount  herein 
prescribed,  nor  inore  than  tivo-tJiirds  of  the  cost  of  such  school  house 
(Old  the  addition  thereto. 

Sec.  7.  The  board  of  education  by  reasonable  rules  and  regulations, 
shall  provide  for  an  equitable  distribution  of  the  funds  loaned  under  this 
act  amongst  the  several  school  districts  and  sections  of  the  State. 

Sec.  8.  All  loans  made  under  this  act,  including  interest  thereon, 
shall  constitute  a  specific  lien  on  said  school  houses  and  any  additions 
thereto  and  upon  the  school  lots  whereon  said  buildings  are  situated; 
and  all  such  buildings  shall  be  kept  fully  and  adequately  insured  for 
the  benefit  of  the  literary  fund  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Virginia,  and 
the  policy  or  policies  of  insurance  shall  be  kept  on  file  in  the  office  of  the 
second  auditor. 

ISTo  loan  shall  be  made  under  this  act  in  any  case  in  which  the  pay- 
ment of  the  same  with  interest  would,  in  the  judgment  of  the  State 
board  of  education,  entail  too  heavy  a  charge  upon  the  revenues  of  the 
school  district  to  which  such  loan  is  granted. — Acts  1916,  p.  378. 

Districts  Paying  Tuition  for  High  School  Pupils  May  Participate  ii> 

High  School  Fund 

(Substitute  for  sub-sec.  "Second,"  sec.  94,  p.  76,  School  Laws.) 

Sec.  2.  Two  or  more  districts  in  the  same  or  adjoining  counties 
may  unite  in  establishing  and  maintaining  a  joint  high  scliool  under 
the  provisions  of  this  act,  and  under  such' rules  and  regulations  as  may 
be  prescribed  by  the  State  board  of  education,  and  the  said  board  shall 
also  prescribe  the  requirements  for  admission  to  such  high  school  and 
the  conditions  on  which  properly  prepared  pupils  residing  in  other  dis- 
tricts may  attend  said  high  school,  and  any  school  district  not  actually 
conducting  high  schools,  but  paying  the  tuition  for  their  high  school 
pupils  in  high  schools  of  other  districts,  counties  or  cities,  may  be  al- 
lowed to  par'ticipate  in  the  State  high  school  fund,  as  though  they  were 
actually  condu(3iing  high  schools. — Acts  1916,  p.  396. 

Treasurers  and  Clerks  to  Report  to  County  School  Board  in  July 

(Amends  sec.  117,  p.  92,  School  Laws.) 

This  amendment  simply  provides  that  treasurers  and  clerks  shall 
submit  their  annual  reports,  with  books,  vouchers,  etc.,  to  the  county 
school  board  at  its  annual  meeting  to  be  hereafter  held  in  July  (instead 
-of  in  August).— Code,  sec.  1484;  Acts  1916,  p.  711. 


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Approximate  Apportionment   and   Disbursement   of   State   School 

Funds 

(Substitute  for  sec.  132,  p.  99,   School  Laws.) 

The  auditor  of  public  accounts,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  No- 
vember of  each  year,  shall  make  a  calculation  of  the  gross  amount  of  all 
funds  applicable  to  public  free  school  purposes  for  the  ensuing  year, 
which  calculation  shall  be  based  upon  the  State  taxes  assessed  for  school 
purposes  upon  persons,  real  estate,  and  tangible  personal  property,  and 
the  property  of  public  service  corporations  other  than  the  rolling 
stock  of  corporations  operating  railroads  by  steam;  and  the  auditor  of 
public  accounts  shall  include  in  said  calculation  ten  cents  on  every  one 
hundred  dollars  of  the  assessed  value  of  the  rolling  stock  of  corporations 
operating  railroads  by  steam  and  a  like  amount  on  every  one  hundred 
dollars  of  the  assessed  value  of  the  intangible  personal  property,  and  so 
far  as  said  calculation  shall  be  based  upon  the  land  and  property  books 
of  the  several  commissioners  of  the  revenue  for  said  year,  he  shall  base 
his  calculations  upon  the  commissioners'  books  of  the  next  preceding 
year  when  said  books  have  not  been  received  in  time.  From  the  aggre- 
gate thus  ascertained  the  auditor  shall  deduct  as  an  allowance  for  de- 
linquents ten  per  centum  of  the  State  tax  for  public  free  school  purposes 
upon  persons  and  real  estate  and  upon  tangible, and  intangible  personal 
property:  provided,  liowever,  that  no  deduction  shall  he  made  for  de- 
linquents upon  the  property  of  public  service  corporations,  including  the 
rolling  stock  of  corporations  operating  railroads  hy  steam,  or  upon  shares 
of  lanh  stock,  and  shall  report  to  the  superintendent  of  public  instruc- 
tion not  later  than  the  first  day  in  November  of  each  year  the  net  amount 
of  all  funds  found  to  be  applicable  to  public  free  school  purposes  for  the 
current  year,  after  making  the  deductions  herein  provided  for,  as  an  ap- 
proximate basis  for  distribution;  whereupon,  under  the  direction  of  the 
superintendent  of  public  instruction,  there  shall  be  furnished  to  the 
auditor  ^  distributive  statement  of  the  amounts  due  the  several  counties 
and  cities  in  the  State  upon  this  approximate  basis. 

Upon  receipt  of  such  statement  the  auditor  shall  issue  his  warrant 
upon  the  treasurer  of  the  State  for  one-half  of  the  ammmt  each  city  or 
county  is  entitled  to  receive,  payable  to  the  treasurer  of  such  city  or 
county;  and  on  the  first  day  of  February  following,  the  auditor  shall  is- 
sue his  warrant  upon  the  treasurer  of  the  State  for  the  other  half  of  the 
amount  each  city  or  county  is  entitled  to  receive,  payable  to  the  treasurer 
of  such  city  or  county. — Code,  sec.  1507;  Acts  1916,  p.  712'. 


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County  and  District  School  Levies — Maximum  May  Be  Made  75 

Cents 

(Amends  sub-section  "Third,"  sec.  136,  p.  101,  Scliool  Laws.) 

Third.  District  funds,  embracing  such  tax  as  shall  be  levied J)y_the 
board  of  supervisors  of  the  county  for  the  purposes  of  the  school  dis- 
trict in  pursuance  of  this  section;  such  dog  tax  as  shall  be  applied  to 
school  purposes  by  the  board  of  supervisors,  and  donations,  or  the  in- 
come arising  therefrom,  or  any  other  funds  that  may  be  set  apart  for 
district  school  purposes. 

The  board  of  supervisors  of  each  county,  at  the  regular  meeting  in 
April  of  each  year,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  practicable,  or  when  the  di- 
vision superintendent  of  schools  shall  file  with  the  said  board  the  esti- 
mates made  by  the  county  and  district  school  boards  in  accordance  with 
section  fourteen  hundred  and  sixty-six  of  this  chapter  (section  49, 
School  Laws)  shall  levy  a  tax  of  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  forty, 
cents  on  the  hundred  dollars  of  the  assessed  value  of  the  real  and  per- 
sonal property  in  the  county  for  the  support  of  the  public  free  schools 
of  the  county,  and  a  tax  of  not  less  than  fifteen  nor  more  than  thirty- 
five  cents  on  the  hundred  dollars  of  the  assessed  value  of  the  real  and 
personal  property  in  any  school  district  for  district  school  purposes; 
provided,  that  should  the  board  of  supervisors  levy  a  lower  rate  than 
forty  cents  on  the  one  hundred  dollars  for  county  school  purposes,  then 
they  may  increase  the  levy  for  district  school  purposes  above  the  maxi- 
mum of  thirty-five  cents  on  the  hundred  dollars  herein  provided,  in  any 
district,  to  such  rate  as  in  their  judgment  may  be  necessary,  provided 
the  total  rate  of  county  and  district  levy  shall  not  be  more  tha7i  seventy- 
five  cents  on  the  one  hundred  dollars  in  any  district;  and  provided, 
further,  that  should  the  board  of  supervisors  fail  to  make  a  levy  suffi- 
cient to  raise  the  amounts  estimated  by  the  county  school  board  as  neces- 
sary for  county  and  district  school  purpose's,  re-^pectively,  it  shall,  upon 
a  petition  in  writing  from  the  county  school  board  praying  for  a  refer- 
ence of  the  question  of  such  increase  in  the  levy  as  will  make  it  sufficient 
to  raise  the  said  estimated  amounts  to  the  qualified  voters  of  the  county 
or  of  the  district,  as  the  case  may  be,  submit  the  question  and  the  amount 
of  the  increase  to  the  qualified  voters  of  the  said  county  for  the  increase 
in  the  county  levy,  or  to  the  qualified  voters  of  the  said  district  as  to  the 
increase  in  the  district  levy;  provided,  however,  that  the  total  levy  for 
county  and  district  school  purposes  shall  not  exceed  seventy-five  cents  on 
the  hundred  dollars  of  the  assessed  value  of  the  taxable  property  in  both 
the  county  and  the  district ;  provided,  further,  that  no  such  increased  levy 
shall  be  made  unless  a  majority  of  the  qualified  voters  voting  at  the  elec- 
tion shall  vote  in  the  affirmative.  In  towns  that  constitute  single  school  dis- 
tricts the  council  instead  of  the  board  of  supervisors  may  make  the  levy 
for  district  school  purposes. 


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Boards  of  supervisors  may  be  permitted  to  make  a  less  rate  of  levy 
than  the  minimum  rates  of  county  or  district  school  levies  named  above 
in  any  case  by  a  special  order  of  the  State  board  of  education,  if  in  the 
judgment  of  said  board  the  said  less  rate  of  levy  will  produce  sufficient 
funds  to  provide  adequate  scliool  facilities  in  the  county  or  district  con- 
cerned.— Code,  sec.  1506;  Acts  1916,  p.  389. 

Boards  of  Supervisors  Authorized  and  Empowered  to  Make  Certain 
Appropriations  to  Public  Schools 

(Approved  March  21,   1916.) 
(Following  sec.  136,  p.  101,  Scliool  Laws.) 

The  board  of  supervisors  of  any  county  may,  in  its  discretion,  ap- 
propriate to  the  support  and  maintenance  of  the  schools  in  any  school 
district  of  the  county,  such  sums  as  in  its  judgment  may  be  necessary 
or  expedient;  provided,  the  amount  appropriated  for  the  several  districts 
in  any  such  county  for  any  one  year,  shall  not  in  the  aggregate,  exceed 
such  proportion  of  the  total  revenues  collected  for  all  purposes  in  such 
county  during  the  preceding  year,  as  the  intangible  property  assessed  in 
said  county  bears  to  the  total  assessed  value  of  property  of  all  kinds  as- 
sessed therein  for  such  preceding  year. — Acts  1916,  p.  769. 

(Approved  March  17,  1946.) 

The  board  of  supervisors  of  any  county  may,  and  the  same  is, 
hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  appropriate  to  the  public  schools  of 
said  county  out  of  the  general  funds  of  the  same  in  any  one  year  a  sum 
not  exceeding  twenty-five  per  centum  of  the  amount  collected  in  said 
county  for  county  purposes  during  the  next  preceding  year. — Acts  1916, 
p.  458.  "  '  . 

Relating"  to  Statement  of  Receipts  and  Disbursements  Required  to  be 
Published  Annually  by  School  Boards 

(Amends  sec.  137,  p.  102,  School  Laws.) 

This  amendment  follows  ^'Amount  paid  teachers,  number  of  teach- 
ers) $ "  (page  103),  and  the  paragraph  as  amended,  reads  as 

follows : 

Also  a  statement  of  any  other  expenditures  not  covered  in  either  of 
the  above  items,  which  said  statement  shall  be  itemized  in  the  following 
form:  (Provided,  that  the  amount  expeyided  for  other  incidental  ex- 
penses shall  he  further  itemized  as  each  of  said  hoards  may  deem  neces- 
sary or  desirable.) — Acts  1916,  p.  788. 


Amendnients  to  School  Laws  13 

Time  of  Meetings  of  Board  of  Supervisors 

(Substitute  for  first  paragraph  of  sec.  138,  p.  104,  School  Laws.) 

The  board  of  supervisors  of  each  county  shall  have  power,  and  it 
shall  be  their  duty,  at  regular  meeting  in  month  of  January  in  each  year 
or  as  soon  thereafter  as  practicable,  not  later  than  their  meeting~vnr 
April: 

Omitted  Taxes 

(Following  sec.  149,  p.  114,  School  Laws.) 

An  act  approved  March  22',  1916,  amending  sec.  508  of  the  Code, 
(Acts  1916,  p.  826),  provides  (sec.  6)  that:  All  State  taxes  hereafter 
assessed  and  collected  under  this  act  are  hereby  appropriated  to  the  pub- 
lic free  schools  of  the  primary  and  grammar  grades,  except  the  State 
taxes  hereafter  assessed  and  collected  for  pensions;  provided,  however, 
that  not  more  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  shall  be  paid 
for  the  appropriation  year  ending  February  twenty-eighth,  nineteen  hun- 
dred and  seventeen,  and  not  more  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand 
dollars  shall  be  paid  for  the  appropriation  year  ending  February  twenty- 
eighth,  nineteen  hundred  and  eighteen. 

Tax  on  Inheritance 

(Following  sec.  149,  p.  114,  School  Laws.) 

An  act  approved  March  22,  1916  (Acts  1916,  p.  812)  in  relation  to 
tax  upon  inheritances  provides  that: 

All  taxes  upon  said  inheritances  paid  into  the  State  treasury  shall 
be  placed  to  the  credit  of  the  public  school  fund  of  the  Commonwealth 
and  shall  be  apportioned  according  to  school  population  and  be  used  for 
the  primary  and  grammar  grades. 

Delinquent  Capitation  Taxes 

(Following  sec.   149,  p.   114,    School  Laws.) 

The  schools,  of  course,  receive  their  share  of  the  delinquent  capita- 
tion taxes  collected  under  the  provisions  of  an  act  approved  March  22, 
1916  (Acts  1916,  p.  823). 

Forest  Reserve  Fund 

(Following  sec.  149,  p.  114,  School  Laws.) 

An  act  approved  March  16,  1916  (Acts  1916,  p.  482)  provides: 

That  all  money  or  moneys  which  shall  have  already  been  paid,  or 

which  may  hereafter  be  paid  to  the  State  of  Virginia  under  an  act  of 

Congress  approved  May  twenty-third,  nineteen  hundred  and  eight,  and 

arising  from  the  ''Forest  Reserve,"  shall  be  paid  over  to  the  auditor  of 


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public  accounts,  and  be  turned  into  tlie  State  treasury,  to  be  distributed 
and  disposed  of  as  hereinafter  provided. 

2.  The  treasurer  of  each  county  in  which  there  is  situated  any  land 
owned  by  the  United  States  government  and  known  as  "Forest  Eeserve" 
shall  ascertain  the  area  of  said  land  so  situated  in  his  county,  and  the 
"reserve"  in  which  the  same  is  located,  and  make  report  thereof  to  the 
auditor  of  public  accounts.  Upon  receipt  of  such  information  from 
the  treasurer,  the  auditor  of  public  accounts  shall  apportion  the  amount 
received  by  him  from  the  "reserve"  in  which  the  said  land  is  located 
among  the  counties  in  which  the  said  "Forest  Eeserve"  is  located,  ac- 
cording to  the  area  in  each  county;  or  if  all  of  the  fund  received  from 
one  reservation  lies  in  one  county,  it  shall  all  be  apportioned  to  that  coun- 
ty, and  the  auditor  of  public  accounts  shall  draw  his  warrant  on  the 
State  treasury  in  favor  of  the  treasurer  of  each  county  for  the  amount 
apportioned  to  said  county,  and  such  treasurer  shall  receive  the  same  and 
place  the  funds  to  the  credit  of  the  public  schools  and  the  public  roads 
of  his  said  county,  as  hereinafter  provided. 

3.  The  funds  above  apportioned  to  the  various  counties  shall  by 
the  treasurers  thereof  be  placed  to  the  credit  of  the  magisterial  districts 
in  which  the  said  land  is  located,  in  equal  proportions,  to  the  credit  of  the 
public  schools  and  the  public  roads  of  said  district;  and  if  the  land  lies 
in  two  or  more  districts  it  shall  be  apportioned  among  them  according 
to  the  area  in  each. 

4.  The  auditor  of  public  accounts  shall  keep  separate  accounts 
of  all  funds  received  by  him  under  this  act,  designated  as  the  "Forest 
"Reserve  Fund." 

Appropriations  by  General  Assembly  for  Schools  for  Each  of  the 
Fiscal  Years  Ending  February  28,  1917,  and  February  28,  1918 

(Substitute  for  sec.  151,  p.  122,  School  Laws.) 
Public  Schools 

Such  sums  as  will  be  sufficient  to  pay  the  amount  re- 
(juired  by  section  fifteen  hundred  and  seven  of  the 
Code  of  Virginia,  as  amended,  to  be  applied  to  the 
support  of  the  public  free  schools,  estimated  at  the 
sum  of  one  million,  four  hun.dred  and  nine  thousand, 
nine  hundred  and  seventy  dollars  and  eighty-seven 
cents,  and  such  additional  sums  as  may  accrue  un- 
der the  law $1,409,970  87 

And  the  further  sum  of  five  hundred  and  eighty  thousand 

dollars    580,000  00 

This  latter  sum  to  be  turned  over  to  the  State  board  of  education 
and  by  that  board  apportioned  as  prescribed  by  the  Constitution  to  the 


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public  free  schools  of  the  several  counties  and  cities  of  the  Common- 
wealth, except,  however,  forty  thousand  dollars,  or  so  much  thereof  as 
may  be  necessary,  which  the  State  board  is  authorized  to  expend  in  the 
maintenance  of  summer  normal  institutes,  provided  that  no  Virginia 
teacher  shall  be  charged  tuition  in  said  summer  normal  institutes.  From 
the  sum  turned  over  to  the  State  board  of  education,  as  aforesaid,  shair 
also  be  excepted  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars,  or  so  much  thereof  as 
may  be  necessary,  which  the  State  board  is  authorized  to  expend  in  the 
maintenance  of  the  public  free  schools  at  the  Laurel  reformatory,  the 
sum  of  six  hundred  dollars,  or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be  necessary, 
which  the  State  board  of  education  is  authorized  to  expend  in  the  main- 
tenance of  the  public  free  school  at  the  negro  reformatory  in  Hanover 
county,  and  the  further  sum  of  six  hundred,  dollars,  or  so  much  thereof 
as  may  be  necessary,  which  the  State  board  is  authorized  to  expend  in  the 
maintenance  of  the  public  free  schools  at  the  Virginia  home  and  indus- 
trial school  for  girls,  upon  the  same  terms  and  conditions  as  the  money 
is  expended  at  the  two  reformatories  above  mentioned,  and  the  further 
sum  of  two  thousand  dollars,  or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be  necessary, 
which  the  State  board  of  education  is  authorized  to  expend  for  rent  of 
offices  which  are  rendered  necessary  by  the  crowded  condition  of  the  capi- 
tol  building. 

There  shall  also  be  excepted  from  the  sum  to  be  turned  over  to  the 
State  board  of  education,  as  aforesaid,  the  sum  of  seventy-five  thousand 
dollars,  or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be  necessary,  to  be  used  under  the  rules 
and  regulations  of  the  State  board  of  education  for  the  establishment 
and  maintenance  of  the  rural  graded  schools  of  two,  three  and  four 
rooms;  provided,  that  no  such  school  shall  receive  more  than  two  hun- 
dred dollars,  and  any  school  receiving  aid  from  this  fund  shall  not  re- 
ceive aid  from  the  high  school  fund.  There  shall  also  be  excepted  from 
the  sum  to  be  turned  over  to  the  State  board  of  education,  as  aforesaid, 
the  sum  of  two  hundred  thousand  dollars  to  be  used  for  the  maintenance 
and  development  of  rural  schools. of  one  and  two  rooms,  the  said  sum  to 
be  used  especially  for  the  purpose  of  increasing  the  length  of  term  in 
said  schools;  and  shall  be  apportioned  by  the  State  board  of  education 
to  the  counties  to  be  apportioned  by  the  State  board  of  education  and 
the  local  school  authorities  among  the  one  and  two-room  schools  or  used 
in  the  establishment  of  one  and  two-room  schools  as  to  the  school  au- 
thorities of  the  counties  and  State  board  of  education  may  seem  best, 
but  no  part  of  said  fund  shall  be  apportioned  or  paid  to  any  rural  school, 
unless  the  levies  for  district  and  county  school  purposes  in  which  said 
school  is  situated  aggregate  a  sum  equal  to  or  greater  than  the  average 
rate  of  the  levies  of  the  district  and  county  school  funds  of  the  Com- 
monwealth. 

For  high  schools,  to  be  expended  as  per  act  creating  public 
high  schools,  one  hundred  thousand  dollars ;  provided. 


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that  so  much  of  the  six  hundred  and  eighty  ^thousand 
dollars,  herein  provided  for  the  support  of  the  public 
and  high  schools  as  may  be  necessary,  not  to  exceed 
thirty-two  thousand  dollars,  shall  be  devoted  to  the 
establishment  and  support  of  departments  of  agricul- 
ture, domestic  economy,  and  manual  training  in  at 
least  one  high  school  in  each  congressional  district 
of  the  State,  to  be  conducted  under  such  rules  and 
regulations  as  the  State  bpard  of  education  may  pre- 
scribe     $     100,000  00 

For  normal  instruction  in  high  schools  under  chapter  sixty- 
seven  of  the  Acts  of  nineteen  hundred  and  eight,  twen- 
ty thousand  dollars 30,000  00 

For  libraries  in  public  schools,  cities,  towns  and  rural  dis- 
tricts under  chapter  three  hundred  and  sixteen,  Acts  of 
nineteen  hundred  and  eight,  and  acts  amendatory 
thereof,  three  thousand  dollars 3,000  00 

For  school  teachers'  pension  fund,  as  provided  by  Acts  of 

nineteen  hundred  and  ten,  ten  thousand  dollars 10,000  00 

Agricultural  high  schools — For  equipment,  maintenance, 
betterments  and  additional  dormitory  space,  and  for 
extension  work  in  agriculture,  gardening,  canning  and 
domestic  science,  as  may  be  needed,  to  be  expended 
under  the  supervision  of  the  agricultural  extension 
department  of  the  agricultural  and  mechanical  college 
and  polvtechnic  institute,  the  sum  of  twenty-five  thou- 
sand  dollars 1 25,000  00 

—Acts  1916,  p.  898  and  p.  925. 

MISCELLANEOUS  NEW  ACTS  OF  ASSEMBLY— 1916  SESSION 

Allowing  District  or  County  School  Boards  (Under  Certain  Con- 
ditions) to  Provide  Free  School  Books  for  Children  Attending 
the  Public  Schools  and  Instructing  Boards  of  Supervisors  and 
City  Councils  to  Provide  the  Necessary  Revenue 

1.  Each  district  school  board  of  this  Commonwealth  is  hereby  au- 
thorized to  furnish  free  of  charge  to  all  pupils  in  the  public  schools  all 
books  adopted  for  use  in  said  school,  said  books  to  be  paid  for  by  each 
district  school  board  or  county  school  board,  out  of  .funds  to  be  provided 
as  herein  prescribed.  But  no  student  shall  be  allowed  more  than  one 
book  of  any  one  kind,  free,  for  any  one  year. 

2.  Wlienever  twenty-five  (25)  per  centum  of  the  electorate  (vot- 
ing at  the  previous  election)  of  any  school  district,  shall  petition  the 
trustees  of  said  district  for  the  introduction  of  free  text-books,  then  the 
said  trustees  of  the  said  district  shall  certify  in  writing  the  fact  to  the 


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electoral  board  of  said  county  or  city  who  shall,  at  least  thirty  days  be- 
fore the  next  general  election,  see  to  it  that  the  question  is  printed  upon 
the  official  ballot  of  such  election  in  type  similar  to  that  used  for  the 
rest  of  the  ballot  and  in  the  following  form:  "For  free  text-books/' 
"Against  free  text-books/'  If  the  majority  of  the  votes  cast  on  this 
question  is  for  free  text-books  then  the  trustees  of  said '  district  slmll 
communicate  in  writing  this  fact  to  the  board  of  supervisors  or  city 
council,  as  the  case  may  be,  together  with  a  statement  of  the  number  of 
pupils  enrolled  in  the  district,  and  the  amount  of  money  needed  to  fur- 
nish free  books,  and 'it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  supervisors  or 
city  council  to  lay  a  levy  for  the  purpose,  or  in  lieu  thereof  to  make  an 
appropriation  of  the  amount  asked  for  by  the  said  trustees,  provided  the 
same  does  not  exceed  one  dollar'  for  each  pupil  enrolled. 

3.  At  such  time  as  any  district  school  board  shall  put  this  act  into 
operation,  it  shall  not  be  necessary  to  take  up  all  the  old  books  of  the 
pupils,  but  to  pupils  wholly  or  in  part  supplied  with  necessary  books  the 
board  may  supply  the  books  only  as  other  or  new  books  are  needed.  All 
school  books  furnished  as  herein  provided  shall  be  the  property  of  the 
district  school  board  and  loaned  to  the  pupils  on  such  terms  and  condi- 
tions as  each  such  district  school  board  prescribes. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  district  school  board  to  adopt  such  rules 
and  regulations  as  may  be  necessary  to  take  care  of  said  books. 

4.  Books  for  use  in  the  schools  shall  be  ordered  at  least  thirty  days 
before  the  opening  of  schools  by  the  clerk  of  each  district  school  board 
from  such  person  or  persons  as  may  be  designated  by  the  State  board  of 
education,  and  at  wholesale  prices  as  provided  by  law. 

5.  The  expenses  of  ordering  and  distribution  shall  be  borne  out  of 
the  district  funds  for  free  text-books  provided  in  section  two,  the  amount 
necessary  to  be  determined  by  each  district  board,  but  in  no  case  shall 
the  expense  of  distribution,  excluding  freight,  exceed  four  cents  for  each 
pupil  enrolled  for  each  session.  It  shall  be  lawful,  by  vote  of  the  district 
board,  for  the  district  clerk  to  undertake  the  distribution  of  books,  pro- 
vided his  compensation  shall  not  exceed  the  amount  named  in  this  act. 

6.  In  such  counties  as  it  may  seem  advisable  to  take  a  vote  upon  the 
free  text-book  question  for  the  entire  county  as  a  unit,  rather  than  by 
districts,  upon  written  notice  from  the  county  school  board  to  the  electoral 
board  of  the  county  certifying  that  each  school  district  in  the  county 
had  duly  petitioned  each  district  board,  as  provided  in  section  two  of 
this  act,  the  electoral  board  shall  have  placed  upon  the  ballot  for  the  en- 
tire county,  in  the  same  way  and  manner  as  provided  in  section  two,  the 
words  "For  free  text-books,"  "Against  free  text-books."  If  the  ma- 
jority of  those  voting  on  this  question  declare  in  favor  of  free  text-books 
then  the  supervisors  are  authorized  to  levy  for  the  entire  county  the 
amount  estimated  by  the  county  school  board  as  needed  to  furnish  said 


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books,  not  to  exceed  one  dollar  for  each  pupil  enrolled  in  the  public 
schools  of  said  county,  which  amount  shall  be  placed  to  the  credit  of  "a 
free  text-book  fund  for  the  count}',"  to  be  disbursed  by  the  county  school 
board,  and  said  county  board  is  authorized  to  order  said  books  in  the 
same  way  and  under  the  same  conditions  as  provided  in  section  four, 
for  district  school  boards,  and  to  pay  the  expense  of  distribution  of  said 
books  as  provided  for  the  district  school  boards  in  section  five  of  this  act. 
Provided  that  this  act  shall  not  apply  to  any  county  or  any  school  district 
in  which  the  school  session  is  not  at  least  seven  months  long. 

7.  Any  school  district  or  county  as  a  unit  having  once  adopted 
above  provisions  or  system,  shall  have  the  right  to  abolish  the  system  by 
an  election  called  and  held  as  prescribed  and  regulated  in  sections  2  and  6 
of  this  act,  and  if  the  majority  of  the  votes  cast  is  against  the  continuance 
of  free  books,  the  system  shall  be  discontinued. — Acts  1916,  p.  714. 

District  or  City  School  Boards  Authorized  to  Borrow  Money  on 
Short-Time  Loans  at  Any  Time  During  the  Years  1916  and  1917 

(Approved  March  16,  1916.) 

Whereas,  some  of  tlie  school  districts  of  the  State  find  it  necessary 
to  make  temporary  loans  in  order  to  adjust  themselves  to  a  new  system  of 
taxation ;  therefore, 

1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  Virginia,  That  the 
several  district  or  city  school  boards  of  the  State,  desiring  to  borrow 
money  for  the  purpose  aforesaid,  be,  and  the  same  .are  hereby,  authorized 
to  borrow  a  sum  of  money  which  shall  not  exceed  the  amount  of  the  dis- 
trict levy  for  the  year  in  which  the  loan  is  negotiated,  such  loans  to  be 
repaid  at  such  time  or  times  within  the  space  of  five  years  as  may  seem 
best  to  the  respective  school  boards,  and  to  bear  interest  at  a  rate  not 
exceeding  six  per  centum  per  annum. 

2.  The  privileges  conferred  by  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  not 
extend  longer  than  the  first  day  of  January,  nineteen  hundred  and 
eighteen. 

3.  An  emergency  existing  by  reason  of  the  facts  stated  in  the 
pr-earnhJe,  this  act  shall  he  in  force  from  its  passage. — Acts  1916,  p.  363. 

To  Provide  United  States  Flag  for  Schools 

1.  Upon  a  petition  of  a  majority  of  the  patrons  of  any  school  in  the 
State,  the  school  authorities  of  each  city  and  of  each  school  district  in 
the  State  of  Virginia,  shall  provide  for  such  public  school  within  their 
jurisdiction  a  United  States  flag,  commensurate  with  the  size  of  the 
building,  but  of  a  size  not  less  than  four  by  six  feet,  together  with  a  flag 
staff  or  pole,  and  the  ropes,  pulleys,  and  other  paraphernalia  needed  for 
flying  said  flag. 


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2.  That  the  money  necessary  for  the  purchase  of  said  flag,  flag  staff 
Hid  paraphernalia  shall, be  used  from  the  moneys  in  the  hands  of  the  said 
-chool  authorities  for  school  purposes,  and  when  any  of  these  articles  shall 
iGCome  worn  out  or  unfit  for  use,  they  shall  be  replaced  by  said  au- 
thorities. _  

3.  That  the  said  flag  shall  be  flown  from  a  staff  attached  to  the 
aid  school  building,  or  from  a  pole  located  not  more  than  flfty  feet  from 
-aid  school  building,  and  within  the  grounds  adjacent  to  it. 

4.  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  teacher  in  a  school  employing 
one  teacher  only,  and  of  the  principal  of  each  school  employing  more 
than  one  teacher,  to  see  that  said  flag  shall  be  flown  from  said  flag  staff, 
or  pole  during  school  hours  of  each  school  day  in  the  year,  from  the 
hour  of  opening  until  the  hour  of  closing  the  school  under  his  or  her 
charge  except  upon  such  days  as  an  injury  to  the  flag  would  be  likely  to 
result  from  flying  it,  by  reason  of  inclement  weather  conditions. — Acts 
1916,  p.  327. 

Unlawful  to  Use  Common  or  "Roller  Towel"  in  Public  Schools,  Etc. 

1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  to  place, 
furnish  or  keep  in  place  in  any  hotel,  office  building,  railway  train,  rail- 
way station,  public  or  private  school,  public  lavatory  or  washroom,  any 
towel  for  the  common  public  use,  and  no  person,  firm  or  corporation  in 
charge  or  control  of  any  such  place  shall  permit  in  such  place  the  use  of 
the  common  towel. 

2.  The  term  "common  towel"  asi  used  herein  shall  be  construed  to 
mean  "roller  towel"  and  towels  intended  or  available  for  common  use  by 
more  than  one  person  without  being  laundried  after  such  use. 

3.  Any  person,  firm  or  corporation  violating  any  of  the  provisions 
of  this  act  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and,  upon  conviction 
thereof,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than 
fifty  dollars.— Acts  1916,  p.  496. 

Relating"  to  Conveyance  of  Land  to  Benevolent  or  Literary  Associa- 
tions and  School  Leagues 

When  any  conveyanee  of  land  lias  been  or  shall  be  made  to  trustees 
for  the  use  of  any  society  of  Freemasons,  Odd  Fellows,  Sons  of  Temper- 
ance, or  any  other  benevolent  or  literary  association,  or  school  league,  or 
if  without  the  intervention  of  trustees  such  conveyance  has  been  made 
since  the  thirty-first  day  of  ]\tarch,  eighteen  hundred  and  forty-eight,  or 
shall  be  hereafter  made  for  such  use,  sections  thirteen  hundred  and 
ninety-nine,  fourteen  hundred  and  two,  fourteen  hundred  and  five,  and 
fourteen  hundred  and  six  shall  be  construed  as  if  they  were  expressly 
made  applicable  to  such  association. — Code,  sec.  1407;  Acts  1916,  p.  830. 


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Relating  to  Quantity  of  Land  Benevolent  or  Literary  Associations 
and  School  Leagues  May  Hold 

The  trustees  for  the  use  of  any  such  association  shall  not  hereafter 
take  or  hold,  at  one  time,  any  land  exceeding  two  acres,  nor  for  any  other 
use  than  as  a  place  of  meeting  for  such  association,  and  for  the  education 
and  maintenance  of  children  charitably  provided  for  by  them ;  provided, 
however,  that  any  school  league  may  hold  as  much  as'ten  acres  in  addition, 
to  he  used  as  home  for  the  principal  of  the  school  for  which  such  school 
league  is  named. — Code,  sec.  1408 ;  Acts  1916,  p.  830. 


Regulations  of  the  State  Board  of  Education 

(Prescribed  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  section  132  of  the  Constitution; 
section  7,  sub-sec.  "Fourth,"  page  17,  School  Laws,  1915.) 

Use  of  School  Funds— State,  County,  District 

(Substitute  for  Regulation  103,  page  193,  School  Laws,  1915.) 

The  State  Fund  shall  be  used  for  the  following  purposes  and  none 
other  not  Authorized  by  statute : 

a.  For  the  pay  of  teachers,  principals,  supervising  teachers'  and  su- 
pervising principals. 

b.  Any  residue  may  be  used  to  pay  the  drivers  of  school  wagons.  But 
no  State  funds  shall  be  used  in  violation  of  section  1506  of  the  Code 
which  provides  that  said  fund  shall  be  applied  exclusively  to  the  mainten- 
ance of  primary  and  grammar  schools. 

County  Fund. — County  funds  shall  be  used  for  the  following  pur- 
poses and  none  other : 

a.  For  the  purposes  for  w^hich  State  funds  may  be  lawfully  used  and 
to  pay  high  school  teachers,  principals,  supervising  teachers  and  super- 
vising principals. 

b.  To  pay  that  part  of  the  salary  of  the  division  superintendent 
which  is  payable  out  of  the  local  school  funds. 

c.  To  pay  the  expenses  of  the  school  trustee  electoral  board. 

d.  To  pay  expenses  incident  to  conducting  county  school  fairs  and 
the  promotion  of  farm  demonstration  work. 

e.  To  pay  the  necessary  office  expenses  of  the  division  superinten- 
dent when  authorized  by  the  county  board. 

f.  To  reimburse  division  superintendents  for  sums  actually  paid 
out  and  expenses  incurred  in  traveling  in  the  performance  of  official  du- 
ties upon  monthly  accounts  certified  as  correct  pver  the  signature  of 
the  division  superintendent  on  blanks  to  be  provided  for  the  purpose  by 
the  superintendent  of  public  instruction,  which  blanks  shall  show  every 
item  and  date  in  detail,  the  names  of  the  schools  visited  during  the 
month,  the  date  and  place  of  educational  meetings  attended  and  the 
number  of  miles  traveled  in  the  performance  of  official  duties.  The  said 
statements  shall  accompany  the  monthly  report  of  the  division  superin- 
tendent to  the  superintendent  of  public  instruction  and  a  duplicate  copy 
of  said  statement  shall  be  filed  with  the  clerk  of  the  county  board. 

Where  a  superintendent  travels  w^ith  a  common  carrier  he  shall  be 
allowed  the  actual  cost  of  transportation.    Where  he  travels  in  his  own 


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conveyance  or  in  a  hired  conveyance  he  shall  be  allowed  7  cents  per 
mile  for  each  mile  traveled,  and  if  while  traveling  in  the  performance 
of  his  official  duties  it  becomes  necessary  for  him  to  stop  at  a  boarding 
house  or  liotel  he  shall  be  reimbursed  for  sums  actually  paid  out  for 
board  and  lodging  upon  receipt  of  the  person  to  whom  said  sum  was  paid. 
Not  more  than  $200  shall  be  allowed  for  the  traveling  expenses  of  a 
division  superintendent  in  any  school  year,  nor  shall  any  traveling  ex- 
penses be  allowed  or  disbursed  except  in  the  manner  herein  provided. 

g.  Or  for  such  other  purposes  as  the  State  board  of  education  may 
allow  by  special  resolution. 

District  Funds. — The  district  funds  shall  be  used  for  the  following 
purposes  and  none  other : 

a.  For  the  purchases  of  real  estate  for  school  purposes  and  for 
building,  furnishing  and  repairing  school  houses  including  sanitary  out- 
houses and  putting  and  keeping  in  order  the  grounds  surrounding  the 
same. 

b.  For  the  necessary  contingent  expenses  of  the  district. 

c.  Any  residue  may  be  used  for  any  of  the  purposes  for  which  State 
or  county  funds  may  be  lawfully  used. 

NEW  REGULATIONS 

(Following  Regulation  135,  p.  204,  School  Laws,  1915.) 

Minimum  Qualifications  of  Division  Superintendents  , 

136.  The  following  minimum  qualifications  for  the  position  of  di- 
vision superintendent  of  schools  are  hereby  prescribed: 

The  applicant  shall  meet  the  qualifications  as  set  forth  in  one  of  the 
following  sub-sections  numbered  from  one  to  four. 

1.  The  applicant  must  show  that  he  holds  or  has  held  a  teacher's 
license  at  least  the  equivalent  of  a  first-grade  certificate,  and  must  also 
show  that  he  has  had  at  least  three  years'  experience  as  a  teacher  or  school 
supervisor  or  principal  within  the  ten  years  immediately  preced- 
ing the  commencement  of  the  term  of  office  for  which  he  applies ;  or 

2.  The  applicant  must  show  that  he  has  successfully  completed  at 
least  two  years  of  college  work  within  ten  years  immediately  preceding 
the  commencement  of  the  term  of  office  for  which  he  applies  in  a  recog- 
nized college  or  normal  school,  and  that  the  course  which  he  has  com- 
pleted embraced  at  least  three  hours  of  education  per  week  throughout 
each  session;  or 

3.  The  applicant  must  show  that  he  is  a  full  graduate  of  a  standard 
college,  the  degree  having  been  conferred  within  ten  years  immediately 
preceding  the  commencement  of  the  term  of  office  for  which  he  apj)lies ;  or 

4.  The  applicant  must  show  that  he  has  served  as  division  superin- 


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tendent  of  schools  in  this  State ;  provided  that  in  case  the  applicant  is  not 
tilling  the  office  of  division  superintendent  at  the  date  of  his  application, 
he  must  meet  the  requirements  as  laid  down  in  sections  1,  2  or  3  of  this 
regulation. 

The  board  may,  in  its  discretion^  waive  that  part  of  the  qualifications 
set  out  in  sub-section  No.  1,  requiring  the  applicants  to  hold,  or  to  have 
held,  a  teacher's  license  equal  to  a  first-grade  certificate,  whenever  the 
board  shall  be  of  the  opinion  that  the  applicant  has  such  training  and 
experience  as  would  entitle  him  to  hold  at  least  a  certificate  of  this  grade. 

The  Auditing  Committee  and  Its  Duties 

137.  The  State  board  of  education  shall  appoint  annually  two  of  its 
members  to  act  as'an  auditing  committee  for  a  period  of  one  year,  and 
until  their  successors  are  appointed.  The  duty  of  said  committee  shall 
be  to  audit  bi-monthly  all  of  the  accounts  of  all  of  the  funds  under  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  State  board  of  education  or  the  superintendent  of 
public  instruction,  including  the  Teachers'  Pension  Fund,  the  Sum- 
mer School  Fund,  the  Literary  Fund  and  the  accounts  of  the  Virginia 
Journal  of  Education,  as  well  as  all  other  accounts  of  moneys  disbursed 
by  the  department  of  education  or  as  to  the  disbursement  of  which  this 
board  is  entrusted  by  law  with  any  duty;  and  the  said  committee  shall 
report  specifically  as  to  contingent  expenses  of  the  department,  and  as 
to  the  contingent  and  traveling  expenses  of  all  persons  connected  there- 
with, and  shall  from  time  to  time  recommend  to  the  board  such  sums  as 
should  be  fixed  for  said  expenses. 

The  report  of  the  committee  shall  be  on  a  printed  form  to  be  pre- 
pared by  the  superintendent  of  public  instruction  in  conference  with 
the  State  accountant  and  the  report  of  the  auditing  committee  shall  be 
presented  for  approval  at  each  meeting  immediately  after  the  reading 
and  approval  of  the  minutes  of  the  last  meeting;  and  the  said  committee 
is  instructed  to  associate  with  it,  in  the  performance  of  its  duties,  the 
State  accountant  or  one  of  his  deputies  whenever  it  is  possible  to  do  so. 

Meetings  of  the  Board 

138.  The  State  board  of  education  shall  meet  on  the  third  Tuesday  of 
January,  March,  May,  July,  September  and  November  at  11  A.  M. 
Special  meetings  may  be  called  at  any  time  by  the  president  of  the  board 
or  by  three  members  thereof. 

Nomination  of  Employees  of  Department 

139.  The  superintendent  of  public  instruction,  whenever  he  may 
think  a  necessity  therefor  has  arisen,  may,  without  first  consulting  the 


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board,  employ  until  the  next  meeting  thereof  persons  to  perform  special 
work  and  fix  their  compensation;  but  the  superintendent  shall  report  to. 
the  board  for  its  approval,  at  its  next  meeting,  his  action  hereunder. 

The  nominations  of  the  superintendent  of  public  instruction  for 
secretary  of  this  board,  for  first  and  second  clerk,  and  other  regular  em- 
ployees, shall  be  reported  to  this  board  for  its  approval  before  any  such 
nominees  shall  enter  upon  the  performance  of  their  duties. 

Procedure  as  to  Charges  Against  School  Official  or  Employee 

140.  Whenever  the  department  of  public  instruction  receives  a 
charge  against  any  public  school  official  or  employee,  whose  conduct  is 
subject  to  review  by  this  board,  the  said  charge  shall  be  read  before  the 
board  in  session,  and  the  board  shall  then  decide  whether  such  charges 
require  an  investigation,  and  if  so,  when  the  same  shall  be  set  for  hearing. 

That  no  charge  will  be  heard  by  the  board  unless  it  sets  out  facts 
which  the  board  deems  worthy  of  investigation,  which  facts  must  be 
supported  by  affidavit. 


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